Word Study
warming
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun warming has 2 senses
- warming(n = noun.process) heating - the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature; Array has particulars: boiling, global warming, induction heating, overheating, radiant heating, melt, melting, thaw, thawing
- warming(n = noun.phenomenon) thaw, thawing - warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they welcomed the spring thaw" is a kind of atmospheric condition, conditions, weather, weather condition
is a kind of temperature change
Derived form verb warm1
Adjective warming has 2 senses
- warming(s = adj.all) Array - imparting heat; "a warming fire"
- warming(s = adj.all) calefacient - producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body; "a mustard plaster is calefacient"
CIDE DICTIONARY
warming, a. & n.
THESAURUS
warming
beating, burning, calefacient, calefaction, calefactive, calefactory, cauterant, chafing, cooking, debacle, defeasance, dielectric heating, drubbing, electric heating, electronic heating, furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating, hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating, insolation, licking, oil heating, overthrow, panel heating, radiant heating, recalescence, rout, shellacking, steam heating, superheating, tepefaction, thrashing, torrefactionROGET THESAURUS
warming
Heat
N heat, caloric, temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity, incalescence, incandescence, glow, flush, fever, hectic, phlogiston, fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze, bonfire, firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, wildfire, sheet of fire, lambent flame, devouring element, adiathermancy, recalescence, summer, dog days, canicular days, baking, heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat, sirocco, simoom, broiling sun, insolation, warming, sun, pyrology, thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics, thermometer, calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, British Thermal Unit, B, T, U, therm, quad, degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen, thermal, thermic, calorific, fervent, fervid, ardent, aglow, sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy, close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive, reeking, baking, red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning, hot, piping hot, like a furnace, like an oven, burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg, fiery, incandescent, incalescent, candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking, live, on fire, dazzling, in flames, blazing, in a blaze, alight, afire, ablaze, unquenched, unextinguished, smoldering, in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat, sudorific, sweltering, sweltered, blood hot, blood warm, warm as a toast, warm as wool, volcanic, plutonic, igneous, isothermal, isothermic, isotheral, not a breath of air, whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.
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